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Bay and Grosvenor, 1920, St. Vincent St.
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| Vincent Street - Bay St north now runs through here. Terauley Extension |
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| This church was the original Knox College. |
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Kenwood Theatre - Bloor West and Dovercourt
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| Note the extant Metropolitan signage above the Shoppers sign. |
Courtesy of the NY Times:
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters may not be the best of the "Bowery Boys" series, but it was unquestionably the most profitable. It all begins when Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) try to gain permission to use a local vacant lot for baseball games. The boys make a trip to the mansion of the lot's owners, the sinister Gravesend family. It soon develops that all the Gravesends are looney, and none loonier than mad scientists Derek (John Dehner) and Anton (Lloyd Corrigan). Derek wants to transfer Sach's brain (what there is of it) to the body of a gorilla, while Anton wants to use Sach's graymatter for his robot. Meanwhile, Amelia Gravesend (Ellen Corby) makes plans to feed Slip to her carnivorous plant. Along the way, Sach is periodically transformed into a hideous beast, terrifying one and all, including his would-be rescuers Louie (Bernard Gorcey), Butch (Bennie Bartlett) and Chuck (David Condon). There isn't a single gag or situation in Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters that wasn't used earlier by the Three Stooges or Abbott & Costello, but that doesn't make the film any less hilarious. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Front, W from Simcoe, 1926
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| The bridge in the left middle distance is the John Street bridge. The entrance to the SkyDome is there now... |
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Bay and Melinda NE corner
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| Cawthra House is the low building on the left before the 'Jarvis' building. |
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| You can't really stand on this corner anymore -- Commerce Court is on top of it. |
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Simcoe looking N towards King, 1914
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| World War One 2nd York Rangers going down Simcoe St. to embark for Niagara Camp. Old Government House in rear. |
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Yorkdale Mall
The Fairweather store is not on the second floor. The room divider that the Bay installed to wall off its cosmetics department from the mall and the glass balcony on the right of the pic combine to give that effect. In the old pic, the fountain was 'public space', if you can even call it that. At some point in time The Bay negotiated extra selling space and expanded.
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Queen and Simcoe NE corner, 1926
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| Queen St. W between Simcoe and University |
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| This 'now' photo is unique in that the house which replaced the Victorian era buildings in the 'then' photo is actually older than those buildings... |
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University Ave. looking S to Queen, 1928
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| University Ave W side looking S to Queen, note construction of Canada Life Building |
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| 2009 |
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